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Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Mobile Airships
 I did not know why we do not have these type of technologies already but a Swiss inventor wants to put a zeppelin up in the stratosphere to replace all the terrestrial mobile phone antennas in Switzerland.Not only would the technology, called High Altitude Platform Systems (Haps), make the current 1,000 earth-bound antennas useless, it would drastically reduce radiation. The inventory, Alavi, is a former aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur who heads his own firm, Stratxx. Together with a team of 50 scientists, he is preparing a 2007 test run of the airship, which he has named the "X station". With the help of GPS steering system developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the 60-meter long helium-filled balloon will remain stationary at 21 kilometers above the earth. A small-unmanned aircraft outfitted with a mobile phone antenna and other devices for transmitting digital data will be attached to the zeppelin. The X station has been equipped with giant propellers to help counter the almost constant buffeting from the wind. As for fuel, Solar panels will supply the energy to propel the airplane and antenna. Underneath will be a platform containing technical equipment, conceived by Ruag, the large Swiss aerospace concern. Alavi tries to conceived people to support this project because it is economical. He estimates that a Haps airship will cost no more than SFr40 million ($32 million). In comparison, a single mobile phone antenna costs about SFr300,000 while a communications satellite starts at SFr600 million. And the X stations are conceived to be low maintenance. In the event of a defect, the aircraft will be decoupled from the airship and returned to earth, much like a mini-space shuttle. unlocked cell phones, cellular phone handset, camera phone pics, mobile phone reviewsunlocked cell phones, cellular phone handset, camera phone pics, mobile phone reviews
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